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China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)

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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

China is a authoritarian country, but it doesn't have the resource and political will to capture and kill every person that doesn't align with CCP.

Things can get pretty ugly (like death, torture, or removal of livelihood) for strong anti-governmental message, like bridgeman; significant public figure expressing dissent (even as a joke), like Bi Fujian, the host of the most popular variety show; or significant public event like wuyi (乌衣), Quanmei, and other activist in the chained woman incident.

But Chinese government is not going to kill someone for saying "I am so fucking overworked". Arrest for telling the story to foreign media (which obviously is neither humane nor legal, I am not trying to defend CCP), maybe, but not worth any more serious punishment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Schroedinger's Communist:

The country is ruled by wealthy elite, but still communist. The government is incompetent, but also all powerful.

It's a fascist dictorship, and only as powerful as it's enforcers are loyal.

If things get bad, it can collapse overnight.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The country is ruled by wealthy elite, but still communist.

"This polygon has three sides, but it's still a triangle."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

More like:

This square doesn't have any corners, but still a square because it told me. Also don't trust that square, it lies about everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One of the things I learned reading Three Body Problem is that their police problems mirror the US a lot more than either country might realize. One of the characters is a cop who knows he's supposed to act a certain way in investigations, but doesn't give a shit. In other words, there's an expectation that their police respect certain civil liberties, but they often don't. Which is basically what happens in the US.

That book was originally published in 2008, though, and since then, Xi Jinping has been pushing things back to being more explicitly authoritarian. Oh, and the author has made some statements in support of that, so that's great.